{"id":210879,"date":"2025-06-24T16:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/210879\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T16:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:54:16","slug":"the-beths-announce-new-album-share-video-for-new-song-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/210879\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beths Announce New Album, Share Video for New Song: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Zealand indie-rockers the Beths<\/a> have announced their first new album in three years. Straight Line Was a Lie<\/a> is out August 29 via Anti-<\/a>, marking their debut on the label<\/a>. The band has also shared the new song \u201cNo Joy,\u201d which singer Elizabeth Stokes wrote when trying to process the newfound benefits and struggles of taking an SSRI for her health. Watch the \u201cNo Joy\u201d video below.<\/p>\n

\u201c[\u2018No Joy\u2019] is about anhedonia, which, paradoxically, was there both in the worst parts of depression, and then also when I was feeling pretty numb on my SSRI,\u201d Stokes explained. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t that I was sad, I was feeling pretty good. It was just that I didn\u2019t like the things that I liked. I wasn\u2019t getting joy from them. It\u2019s very literal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Straight Line Was a Lie was written in Los Angeles and recorded in the Beths\u2019 hometown of Auckland, New Zealand. The follow-up to their 2022 full-length, Expert in a Dying Field<\/a>, gets its album title from the illusion of linear progression and how, according to Stokes, life is about finding meaning in the maintenance.<\/p>\n

As previously announced, the Beths are going on a huge headlining tour<\/a> later this year, with dates scheduled across the United Kingdom, Europe, Canada, and the United States. Joining them as openers on select concerts are Illuminati Hotties, Squirrel Flower, Bret McKenzie, Phoebe Rings, and Dateline.<\/p>\n

Read about Expert in a Dying Field at No. 47 in \u201cThe 50 Best Albums of 2022<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.<\/p>\n

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The Beths: Straight Line Was a Lie<\/p>\n

Straight Line Was a Lie<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

01 Straight Line Was a Lie
02 Mosquitoes
03 No Joy
04 Metal
05 Mother, Pray for Me
06 Til My Heart Stops
07 Take
08 Roundabout
09 Ark of the Covenant
10 Best Laid Plans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand indie-rockers the Beths have announced their first new album in three years. Straight Line Was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,32747,16,15,359],"class_list":{"0":"post-210879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-releases","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-video"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114739390956702332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}